Terri Thomas St. Clair was born in Pulaski County, Virginia and reared in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. She attended New River Community College in Dublin, Virginia, later transferring to Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. She and her husband, Roger, who was her childhood sweetheart, live in Matthews, North Carolina, and are the parents of two children and three grandchildren. Though brought into a modern style, her writing is geared to the rural folks of Appalachia, whom she loves and with whom she identifies. Her simplistic, easy-reading style